LB5304 - Current Issues in Human Resource Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band
Administered by:	School of Business

This subject will focus on the major issues likely to require adaptation and change to HRM systems and processes in a globalised environment. As such, it will focus on "big picture" issues that are increasingly impacting organizations generally, as well as HRM issues that arise due to the need for adaptation to structures and processes. Although it will consider the major HRM processes, this coverage will be from a strategic overview and will not over lap unduly with the more in-depth subjects on HRM processes. The principles of adult learning and their relevance to HRM activities will be examined. The strategic relationship between HRM and improving performance in a range of organisational contexts will be emphasized, as will the creation and management of organisational knowledge. Core competencies and skills of the HR practitioner will be emphasised.

Learning Outcomes

• Critically analyse the learning philosophies and assumptions upon which HRM strategies and activities are based;
• Identify the future roles of HRM as a strategic function of organisations;
• Identify issues and future challenges in the design, delivery, implementation and evaluation of HRM programs; identify ways of inducting and socialising staff into organisations;
• Explain the strategic importance of Human Resource Management and its contribution to organisational effectiveness, productivity and quality of work-life balance;
• Discuss and conceptualise the relationship between strategy, performance management and performance appraisal; identify the issues in career management and the relationship to organisation goals.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to encompass and use methods and conceptual advances in areas of knowledge cognate to their central area(s) of expertise;
• The ability to make constructive contributions to project teams or collegial activities.

Availabilities
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52
Census Date 24-Jul-2009
Coordinator:	Mr Noel Richards
Lecturer:	jc153003.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures - Face-to-face
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); presentations (10%); essays (30%); assignments (20%).

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